There are two ways to install a new hard disk under FreeBSD system. You can use all command line utilities such as fdisk, bsdlabel and newfs to create partitions, label and format it. This method requires complete understanding of BSD partitions and other stuff.
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Linsux.org, the premiere Linux Hating site, is now officially endorsing FreeBSD. Reason:
the mild mannered community, development practices, truly open licence and quality make FreeBSD an obvious choice for the Web Server and Computer Enthusiast
The website is now moving to a FreeBSD server
Do you know what and how much has changed in FreeBSD 7.0? If you check the FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE Release Notes you can see all the changes, additions and updates all on one page.
The FreeBSD Project is about to start the release cycle for FreeBSD-7.1 and FreeBSD-6.4. The proposed schedule for the “major events” of the cycle is:
- Freeze August 29
- BETA September 1
- Branch September 6
- 6.4-RC1 September 8
- 7.1-RC1 September 15
- 6.4-RC2 September 22
- 7.1-RC2 September 29
- 6.4-REL October 6
- 7.1-REL October 13
Check out the FreeBSD Calendar for other events.
Thanks to Gonzalo Nemmi for submitting this.
Squid is a caching proxy and conserving badwidth application for the Web supporting HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and more. It reduces bandwidth and improves response times by caching and reusing frequently-requested web pages. Squid has extensive access controls and makes a great server accelerator. With Squid, you can reduce the network/internet traffic by 30% or more from normal usage (without squid) and enhance respone time.
Step-by-step instructions on how to install Squid on FreeBSD can be found here.
According to Alex Bustin, an engineer of Flash development at Sony, there’s a 32-bit Flash player for FreeBSD.
I know that iXsystems, the corporate sponsor behind the PC-BSD project, is talking to/collaborating with Adobe on a FreeBSD version of Flash, but it would be great if this report is true. That would be at least be one less barrier for the adoption of FreeBSD as desktop operating system (including PC-BSD and DesktopBSD) ;-)
Computer Magazine Linux Identity has put together a PDF with basic FreeBSD commands.
A newcomer to FreeBSD will probably find himself served well by a desktop environment (as KDE or GNOME). But there is also another world: a world of CLI – command line interface. Instead of clicking icons and menus, users memorize and type commands, exchanging all communication with the system through a rectangle of plain text.
The June 2008 issue was about FreeBSD 7.
- Turn the system off.
- Hit ESC when the OS boots up
- Choose to boot into Single User Mode (option 4)
- Select the default shell (/bin/sh)
- When the machine is booted up and you see the prompt, enter:
- mount -u /
- mount -a
- Type passwd to reset the password
- Enter the new password and confirm it
- Type reboot to reboot the machine (or press the shutdown button to reboot)
Bordeaux is designed to make installing some of the most popular Windows applications on Linux less of a hassle when using Wine.
Bordeaux is an addon to the Wine project and uses Dan Kegel’s Winetricks script as the backend processor. Unlike Wine which is free, a Bordeaux license costs $20.00.
Work has now started to make Bordeaux work on FreeBSD 7.0 as well (already working on Linux).
Over the last couple day’s I have been working on the Bordeaux for FreeBSD 7 port. We now have everything compiling and running but a lot more testing needs to be done before it’s ready for a final release. Internet Explorer, Steam and Office 2003 are the only applications I’ve gotten around to testing thus far. The good news is everything that I have tested works fairly well on FreeBSD.
If you’re a FreeBSD user and need to run any of the software that we currently support on the Linux client you might be interested in helping beta test this build and future builds up to the final stable release. At this time we can’t give out beta builds, but what we can do is if you purchase a license from the store for a Linux build then send a mail to support. This email is provided once you purchase a licence, and ask for a FreeBSD build I can send it to you.
The second issue of the BSD Magazine (September 2008) is out now.
More than 60 pages full of news, great articles, tutorials, how-tos and extras. This is the table of contents:
06 BSD News
08 DVD contents description
10 OpenBSD 4.3 installation & configuration
18 You have installed it? Now what? Packages!!
22 OpenBSD
26 BSD Certification
30 Building an OpenBSD SAMP server with content filtering proxy
38 OpenBSD as an Desktop
40 Inside the PBI system
44 Connecting to other IM networks
50 Kernel File system - development in userspace
54 Securing IM using Jabber/XMPPP and LTS
58 OpenBSD and making money
61 Absolute FreeBSD 2nd edition
62 PC-BSD in schools
64 Interview with OpenBSD developer Damien Bergamini
For more information and subscriptions visit the BSD Magazine website.
